Narrow strip material adapted for making hat bodies



Feb. 13, 1951 L. BRANDT 2,541,151

NARROW STRIP MATERIAL ADAFTED FOR MAKING HAT BODIES Filed July 9, 1947 gal Zf INVENTOR.

1 o u/ s BRA /v D T Patented Feb. 13, 1951 NARROW STRIP MATERIAL ADAPTED FOR MAKING HAT BODIES Louis Brandt, New York, N. Y., assignor to Joseph Brandt & Bro. Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation Application July 9, 1947, SerialNo. 759,254

weaving or otherwise forming hat bodies.

Whenstrip material of this character comprises a flat-tubular strip of cellophane, the latter ;ls frequently torn by the needle or thread when the stitching operation is performed in making the hat or other article from said material or braids formed therefrom. One of the objects of the present invention, therefore, is to obviate this objection. Further, the strip material frequently includes an inner strip or core and in such case said inner strip has an appearance which differs from that of the outer cellophane tube, or folded strip, with the result that said inner strip, or strips, may be visible through the holes punctured in the cellophane tubular strip by the needle in the stitching operation. Another object of the invention therefore is to obviate or greatly minimize this disadvantage.

Another object of the invention is the provision of improved strip material of the type referred to above, particularly in respect to the strength of the material, the appearance thereof and its foldability and flexibility.

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be fully understood from the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view, on an enlarged scale, of a piece of strip material embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a greatly enlarged sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the material, on a larger scale than Fig. l, with parts cut away for the purpose of illustration.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, the strip material embodying the present invention is of indefinite length and comprises an outer longitudinally folded strip ill of cellophane or similar material, such as for example material having properties similar to that of cellophane. This foldedstrip if is in the form of a flattened tube having a single ply l2 at one side thereof and two plies l6 and H8 at the other side thereof, said last-mentioned two plies being of substantially the same width and disposed in overlapping face-to-face relation and united with each other throughout their confronting surfaces. More specifically, plies IE and it are adhesively secured to each other for the full length of the strip material, and this is preferably accomplished 2 Claims. (Cl. 154-5313) 2 during the folding of the flat strip from which the tubular strip I0 is formed. The folded side edges of strip I D are indicated at 2%) and 22 and define the opposite longitudinally extending side edges of the strip material. Inner non-folded strips 24 and 26 of cellophane or other sheet material of similar properties are disposed within the tubular strip It! in non-folded or flat condition and extend longitudinally of strip l0, said strips 24 and 26 being disposed in confronting face-to-face relation and adhesively secured to the inner surfaces or confronting faces of the plies l2 and I8, respectively, of the folded or flat-tubular strip I0. One or more additional strips preferably two non-folded strips 28 of thin sheet material, preferably thin crinkled paper, are disposed within the tubular strip [0 between the cellophane strips 24 and 26. These lastmentioned paper strips 28 are not adhesively or otherwise secured to each other or to the other parts of the strip material and therefore may move longitudinally of strips Ill, 24 and 26, so that the strip material is not unduly stiff but is of the proper degree of flexibility or pliability and foldability It will be understood that all of the strips I0, 24, 25 and 28 are coextensive in length and are of substantially the same width.

The inner strips 24 and 26, which lie next to the adjacent inner surfaces or faces of the outer folded strip in are preferably of the same color and appearance. Similarly the paper strip or strips 28 are preferably of the same color as the cellophane strips but, although of the same color, they have a somewhat different appearance than that of the cellophane strips since ordinarily these paper strips are not as glossy as the cellophane strips. However, as a result of the provision of the inner cellophane strips 24 and 26 the needle holes which are made in the strip material when the latter is stitched do not appreciably expose the inner strips 28. Further it will be observed that the inner cellophane strips 24 and 2B rein force the folded tubular strip It! so as to obviate or greatly minimize tearing of the strip material by the stitching at the holes made by the needle. The crinkled paper strips 28 add a certain amount of fullness to the composite strip material without however unduly increasing the stiffness thereof, particularly since these paper strips are thin and soft and, as described above, strips 28 are not secured to each other and strip H) is secured only to strips 24 and 2B and the latter are secured only to strip in.

It will be uriderstood that various changes may be made in the strip material of the present in-v vention without departing from the underlying idea thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. Band material for use in forming stitched hat bodies, comprising an outer longitudinally folded flat-tubular strip of smooth cellophane of a pre-determined color, two inner strips of smooth cellophane of the same color as the cello- 1 phane of said outer strip, said inner strips being disposed in confronting face-to-face relation in ternally of the latter and bonded throughout to the opposite inner faces respectively, of said folded strip, said inner strips extending longitudinally of said folded strip, and an additional strip of flexible sheet material other than cellophane but of the same color as said cellophane strips, said additional strip being disposed between the confronting faces of said inner strips and extending longitudinally of the latter, said additional strip being pierceable with a sewing needle and lending fullness to the band material.

2. Band material for use in forming stitched side thereof and two overlapped and united plies at the opposite side thereof united with said single ply at the opposite folded edges, respectively, of the strip, two-inner non-folded strips or smooth cellophane of the same color as the cellophane of said outer strip, said. inner strips being disposed in confronting face-to-face relation internally of said folded strip longitudinally thereof and cemented throughout to said single ply and to the inner one of said overlapped plies, respectively, and a strip of paper disposed between, but not united with, the confronting faces of said inner strips and extending longitudinally of the latter, said paper being of the same color as said cellophane strips and being readily pierceable with a sewing needle and lending fullness to the band material.

LOUIS BRANDT.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the 2,315,318 Sackner Apr. 6, 1943 

